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  <span>Hi everyone,<br>
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  As we continue working on Fuel 
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style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">6.1</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
 release, let me share some updates. I do realize I should have 
shared this earlier, I apologize for the delay with this communication. 
So, here we go:<br>
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  <span style="font-weight: bold;">1. We are 
officially at Feature Freeze for <span 
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  According to our Release Schedule 
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 [1] with quite a bit of exceptions [2] we have entered into 
Feature Freeze [3] state. As usual, let me request Feature Leads', 
Component leads' and core reviewers' help with sorting out the 
blueprints - many have to be properly updated, and other (not 
started/not
 completed) moved to the next milestone. <br>
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  <span style="font-weight: bold;">2. <span 
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 Soft Code 
Freeze and further milestones are postponed for 2 weeks.<br>
  </span>We cannot declare Soft Code 
Freeze until we are done with all exceptions. Based on cumulative 
Feature Leads' feedback, we'll need roughly 2 weeks to deal with all 
exceptions and perform the necessary level of QA, so we have updated the
 Release Schedule with new dates for Soft Code Freeze (March <span 
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and GA Release (May <span 
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Another challenge is that we have quite considerable amount of Medium 
Priority bugs. To ensure good quality of this release we also need to 
fix as many Medium Priority bugs before we declare Soft Code Freeze, so 
we greatly appreciate your contributions here. <br>

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Thank you 
very much for your continued contributions, your efforts are greatly 
appreciated.  <br>
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  </span><span><span style="font-style: italic;">[1] 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
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  <span style="font-style: italic;">[2] List of current FF exceptions 
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 release:</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
  <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: 
italic;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a 
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href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/plugins-deployment-order">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/plugins-deployment-order</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/consume-external-ubuntu">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/consume-external-ubuntu</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/200-nodes-support">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/200-nodes-support</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/separate-mos-from-linux">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/separate-mos-from-linux</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/murano/+spec/muraniclient-url-download">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/murano/+spec/muraniclient-url-download</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/fuel-library-modularization">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/fuel-library-modularization</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/support-ubuntu-trusty">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/support-ubuntu-trusty</a><br>
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  <span style="font-style: italic;">[3] 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/FeatureFreeze">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/FeatureFreeze</a></span>
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